I honestly really enjoy watching reruns on MeTV, 95% of the reason being Bull.

Due to my age, I've only ever known Bono as a self-important joke, so. No.

I can totally understand that, trust me. You know what I miss, though? Real oldies radio stations that play Motown and stuff. The only things we have now are just classic rock stations that play the same 100 songs all the time.

You can, but I like those bands, so I won't.

I'm so sorry about your sister. I offer my services to you as sister, because right now I'm not using them.

We don't so far, no! And we also sometimes orchestrate things on the TI Forum, but we try to cross-post on Reasonable Discussions.

Other people got to come of age to Led Zeppelin or Nirvana. I came of age to goddamn Eminem and Limp Bizkit.

I want to get married, I do - but I also don't want to get married just to do that. I've known too many women who fell into that trap. So I'm enjoying my single life and figuring myself out as much as I can, because I need to be my own person first.

Right, as a kid I was a nerd AND a dweeb. (Like, just. So dweeby. Like Bart Simpson in orthopedic shoes and coke-bottle glasses.) Now I'm just a nerd. You know, you grow!

That's why I'm single. That and I'm too fucking tired anymore to bother with trying to date. I don't have the energy for a girlfriend right now on top of my long-ass commute and my friends and my hobbies.

Orson Hyde beat me to it. Vonnegut. Absolutely Vonnegut. And if it helps, I never thought about reading him until I was well into my 20s because I don't care for science fiction. But he isn't really science fiction at all - he's very, very human even when writing about aliens.

I might know a lot of stuff from the nonfiction I've read (ask me about my Mary, Queen of Scots opinions sometime if you want me to monologue for a good half hour) but I've learned from fiction. I've learned how I want to treat people and how I want to be treated. I've learned about the kind of person I want to be.…

I've had to learn this too over the years - and now I'm at the point where I try to keep almost any conversation about my favorite things as superficial as possible because I'm so afraid of being a total bore.

I enjoy reading fiction and nonfiction equally, but I've always connected much, much more with fiction.

My mom has a BA in Psychology/Masters in Education and my dad is a pharmacist. If they based their relationship on what they read, they'd have broken up within 6 months. My mom likes trashy romance novels and mysteries - she rips through them like they're pamphlets - and my dad averages 1/2 to 3/4 of a nonfiction…

At least it's hardwood…

Oh my god.

My mom can't even bring herself to say his name. She just calls him "45" or "that man".

There's going to be a fucking WHAT?!

Fun fact! We turned away Anne Frank and her family when they tried to come to the U.S. as refugees.